CMake中的while命令用于在条件为true时评估(evaluate)一组命令，其格式如下：

while()
endwhile()

      在while和匹配的endwhile之间的所有命令都被记录下来而不被调用。一旦评估了endwhile，只要为true,就会调用记录的命令列表。
      while中的与if命令中的具有相同语法和相同的逻辑进行评估。
      命令break和continue提供了从正常控制流中退出的方法。

set(var 1)
while(${var} LESS 4)message("var: ${var}")math(EXPR var "${var}+1")
endwhile()

      CMake中的continue命令用于continue到foreach或while循环的顶部(top)，其格式如下：

continue()

      continue命令允许cmake脚本中止foreach或while循环的当前迭代的其余部分，并从下一次迭代的顶部开始。

set(var 1)
while(${var} LESS 4)message("var: ${var}")math(EXPR var "${var}+1")if(${var} EQUAL 3)continue()endif()message("after math, var: ${var}")
endwhile()

      CMake中的break命令用于从foreach或while循环中中断(break)，其格式如下：从当前的foreach或while循环中退出

break()

set(var 1)
while(${var} LESS 4)message("var: ${var}")math(EXPR var "${var}+1")if(${var} EQUAL 3)break()endif()message("after math, var: ${var}")
endwhile()
message("var: ${var}")

      执行上述测试代码需要3个文件：build.sh, CMakeLists.txt, test_while.cmake

      build.sh内容如下：

#! /bin/bash# supported input parameters(cmake commands)
params=(function macro cmake_parse_arguments \find_library find_path find_file find_program find_package \cmake_policy cmake_minimum_required project include \string list set foreach message option if while return \math file)usage()
{echo "Error: $0 needs to have an input parameter"echo "supported input parameters:"for param in ${params[@]}; doecho "  $0 ${param}"doneexit -1
}if [ $# != 1 ]; thenusage
fiflag=0
for param in ${params[@]}; doif [ $1 == ${param} ]; thenflag=1breakfi
doneif [ ${flag} == 0 ]; thenecho "Error: parameter \"$1\" is not supported"usageexit -1
fiif [[ ! -d "build" ]]; thenmkdir buildcd build
elsecd build
fiecho "==== test $1 ===="# test_set.cmake: cmake -DTEST_CMAKE_FEATURE=$1 --log-level=verbose ..
# test_option.cmake: cmake -DTEST_CMAKE_FEATURE=$1 -DBUILD_PYTORCH=ON ..
cmake -DTEST_CMAKE_FEATURE=$1 ..
# It can be executed directly on the terminal, no need to execute build.sh, for example: cmake -P test_set.cmake

      CMakeLists.txt内容如下：

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)
project(cmake_feature_usage)message("#### current cmake version: ${CMAKE_MAJOR_VERSION}.${CMAKE_MINOR_VERSION}.${CMAKE_PATCH_VERSION}")
include(test_${TEST_CMAKE_FEATURE}.cmake)
message("==== test finish ====")

      test_while.cmake:为上面的所有示例代码

      可能的执行结果如下图所示:

      GitHub: https://github.com/fengbingchun/Linux_Code_Test